The author is a political analyst and media development specialist. He can be reached at adrehmat@gmail.com.
What can Iftikhar Chaudhry’s proposed party do to make it big and make its leader also the country’s leader?
When Sharif and Modi met on the sidelines of the SCO summit, there was huge pressure to repair their worsening ties and not bring their juvenile...
To emphasise the overt generalisation that no one reads anymore is misleading. Here’s why
Will Kashmir banega Pakistan? Surely this is a question that needs to be asked and a dispassionate effort be made to ferret out an answer
That PML-N piloted the tainted project to amend the constitution and essentially dilute political rights in favour of an imagined superior military...
Pakistan’s national security apparatus, rather than the federal cabinet of an elected government, has a strong say in how foreign policy is run,...
What defines the present chief of army staff is decisiveness and action
Imran Khan will have to learn to share the burden of historic responsibility of collaborative politics in a multi-pluralistic polity by learning to...
Ms Pereira, thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole, like Alice in Wonderland
The Constitution should not be a piece of paper that you can tear up and throw at imaginary dogs that will wag their tails happily as soldier Zia...
Pakistan can be a sustainable military nuclear power only if it is simultaneously an economic and political powerhouse, not at the cost of the latter
Preventing people and communities from acting out their pluralisms institutionalises intolerance
Going by the fact that the Sharifs met the army chief four times in one week means a new template of semi-legal framework has been created
Times when the more adventurous journalists secretly met in hidden, half-lit rooms but out of fear, not shame
The legitimacy of CoD lies in the fact that its principal authors and signatories are Bhutto’s PPP and Sharif’s PML-N
There are constitutional guarantees that define freedoms and allowances. Then there are laws that factor in limitations and punishments for...
The year 2002 was a turning point for media’s evolution in Pakistan when the country’s airwaves were opened up for private ownership and...
The average Pakistani citizen lives in the mortal fear of three threats: being branded a traitor, being charged with blasphemy and becoming the...
Nawaz Sharif will complete the first year of his five-year mandate of governing the country this month. Nothing new about this, of course....
Does it want to be a normal state? Or would it rather be a special one that helps it sidestep the boredom and banality of development in favour of...
